University of Virginia football fans got excited for Friday’s home opener against William & Mary at the annual Paint the Town Orange pep rally downtown Thursday evening.
One of Sampson’s favorites though was a pair of orange suedes he wore to every NCAA Tournament game played by eventual champions and alma matter, the University of Virginia. He ended up autographing and giving those shoes to a team manager, the grandson of an NBA referee that Sampson knew well.
Dozens of UVA students and staff were up early Friday morning to go on a run with the big man on Grounds.
It’s been a long road, but a tribute to the University of Virginia’s only graduate killed in action during the Iraq War will be held Monday. In July 2017, then-U.S. Rep. Tom Garrett filed a bill to honor Army Capt. Humayun Khan, who was killed in Baqubah, Iraq, in 2004 when a vehicle packed with IEDs drove into the gate of his compound.
A pair of UVA School of Medicine scientists revealed how E. coli finds the most oxygen-free crevices of the colon to cause the worst infection possible. They hope the discovery could let doctors prevent infection by allowing E. coli to pass harmlessly through the body, according to the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.
In a 2017 paper, researchers from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Virginia found that sea-based transport has a significant environmental impact on the climate and water quality.
The University of Virginia has released a new video urging fans in athletic venues who sing “The Good Old Song” to keep it “good.” The video features students, prominent faculty — such as Dean of Students Allen Groves and Center for Politics Professor Larry Sabato, athletes Bryce Hall and Bryce Perkins among others, alumni such as Tina Fey, and others. Athletic Director Carla Williams says in the video the University of Virginia is a place “that competes and wins with class.”
As the UVA gets ready for its first home football game of the season, the University is asking some fans to change the way they sing "The Good Old Song."
(Subscription required) More than two dozen public schools placed in this year’s top 100 of the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings, with 10 public schools, including the University of Virginia, making the top 50. These schools ranked highly in providing desired outcomes for graduates, despite lacking the resources of many private schools.
Charlottesville activist and writer Zyahna Bryant will complete her first year of studies at UVA while acting as an adviser to Gov. Ralph Northam. Bryant was appointed to the Virginia African-American Advisory Board on Friday.
“You could find lots of examples of candidates who were kind of pilloried as being, quote, ‘unelectable’ who ended up becoming president,” says Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. “Obviously, Donald Trump is a great example of that.”
At the national level, “policy work is increasingly being done by people with no training in it, and who don’t care about it, because they’re drawn into national politics purely as culture warriors,” said Philip Zelikow of the University of Virginia, who worked as a national security official for both Presidents Bush. “There’s a fiction that mass politics is about policy.”
“If Lizzo is an artist who supports body positivity, feminism, and an unapologetic being in the world, then all of those things become stand-ins for what those particular candidates support,” says University of Virginia professor of hip hop A.D. Carson.
Economists say it’s too early to tell the overall impact of Medicaid expansion. “It would likely take a few years of data before [the impact] could be fully evaluated,” says Terance J. Rephann, a regional economist with UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, who has studied Medicaid expansion.
Are we supposed to take care of the planet or should it take care of us? Willis Jenkins, a UVA religious studies scholar, explains how religion shapes the conflicting views over climate change and other environmental issues.
Quinn Curtis, co-author of “Shareholder Value(s): Index Fund Activism and the New Millennial Corporate Governance.”, talks with Les Sinclair about the findings in the paper. Quinn Curtis teaches courses on corporate law, securities and venture capital. His research focuses on empirical law and finance.
Quinn Curtis, co-author of “Shareholder Value(s): Index Fund Activism and the New Millennial Corporate Governance.”, talks with Les Sinclair about the findings in the paper. Quinn Curtis teaches courses on corporate law, securities and venture capital. His research focuses on empirical law and finance.
Climate has never been a major issue in a presidential campaign. This year, however, as the dire predictions increasingly become reality, that seems to be changing. “It has become a top-tier issue,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “How could anyone who reads the headlines not recognize that this is not just a problem, it’s a crisis?”
Research by Benjamin L. Castleman, now an associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia, and Lindsay C. Page, now an associate professor of education at the University of Pittsburgh, showed that higher-tech nudges, in this case, text-message interventions, could make a difference at several key points in students’ journeys.
“My hope is the response to threats becomes more nuanced and more individualized, just like students with [individualized education programs]: Each one is unique to that child,” said Talisha Lee Bond, a school psychologist with the District of Columbia schools and a threat-assessment trainer for the Comprehensive Student Threat Assessment Guidelines, which were developed by Dewey G. Cornell, a forensic psychologist and professor of education at the University of Virginia.